Words and phrases I will not use/hate

[lightng]

Can you ask if anyones seen Mike Oxard?

[BrianSnail]

"Australian rising question tonation?

Because everything's a question?

[Doggy Styles]

I hate it when my wife and her friends say things like Spag Bog. And describe things as Mega.

Am I just a f**kin snob?

[DodgyAgent]

"off of"
"like" instead of said
Australian rising question tonation?
"Oh my God"
another vote for "Movies"
"Minger" = horrible scouse word

woman

[DodgyAgent]

I hate it when my wife and her friends say things like Spag Bog. And describe things as Mega.

Am I just a f**kin snob?

Only if you sh*g her after you have sneered at her

[DodgyAgent]

Because everything's a question?

It is really irritating, and teenagers and the young are doing it now, even the posh ones.

[VectraMan]

Phoning somebody and saying "it's me". Who else is it going to be?

[DodgyAgent]

"Peeps"

Cojak

[Platypus]

I meant on the phone. I get irritated by sales people opening the conversation with "how are you?"

Yes, that really really pisses me off too.

I usually just tell them to get on with it or ask them what they're selling.

Alternatively say "not very well, my wife died of cancer last week".
That throws them.

[bogeyman]

"Going forward"

What the hell does that mean, and when did it come into common usage amongst pimply junior managers and wannabees?

As well as sounding utterly spastic, the phrase is often used as some kind of immutable and unanswerable closure to a conversation. As in...

"I'm sorry Mr Bogey, that we at Dire Co. have not satisfied your customer service expectations this time, but we will take your comments on board and will improve our call-handling process GOING FORWARD".

In reality most the the imbeciles that utter this drivel are generally pretty backward.